This afternoon, it comes. The storm that will wash away the unfaithful and vindicate doomsday prophet Jim Schutze is slated to hit Dallas, bringing with it a torrent of water, hail, wind and tweets about Pete Delkus’ rolled up sleeves. “We’ll have what looks like a line of thunderstorms develop…
Drivers who don’t pay tickets for getting caught by one of Dallas’ hated red-light cameras won’t get a bad mark on their credit reports, Dallas police assistant director Donzell Gipson told the City Council’s public safety committee Monday. Gipson said the city is being forced to find a new way to…
Big debate going on now in Dallas about a porn expo at the city convention center, but first we need to talk about eastern Oklahoma and international necrophiliacs. Necrophiliacs, as I once heard explained by a politician from the “Little Dixie” district of eastern Oklahoma who was speaking to to…
So in the way things have been done around here forever, a rich lady has suggested to a former City Council member that a bridge on the river — a major feature of the as yet unnamed Trinity River park — be named for former Mayor Ron Kirk, who for…
America has many iconic streets. Some are famous as centers of commerce or government, others for their world-class shopping or music. Dallas has many of those same streets, except without any of the qualities that make them iconic. In fact, many of Dallas’ famously named streets aren’t really fit for…
Helena Tantillo, a former Austin tech executive on the outer edges of the federal corruption case against Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, was sentenced Friday to six months in federal prison for lying to FBI agents investigating the case against Price. Tantillo’s company, BearingPoint, employed Christian Campbell as a…
Incoming Denton County Sheriff Tracy Murphee posted on Facebook that he’d beat the hell out of a transgender man if he tried to piss in a bathroom where Murphree’s daughter was peeing. “This whole bathroom thing is craziness I have never seen,” Murphree wrote in an April 22 Facebook post…
Midlothian police, it seems, are not really any closer to finding out who killed Missy Bevers, the Camp Gladiator instructor found dead inside Creekside Church of Christ just after 5 a.m. Monday. Friday afternoon, for the third time, the released additional footage of the person they believe is Bevers’ killer, vandalizing…
I was on Channel 11 last night about the Bryan Parkway Parkway pothole. I’ll explain the hospital wristbands in a minute. Last week I apologized for writing an alarmist column in which I said I thought people might be living in a pothole in my alley. Further exploration revealed that…
It’s bad enough for a rookie politician to face the Texas Rangers’ corruption unit, but it hurts more when it’s a friend who set you up. It’s the kind of hurt that lingers long after the Rangers’ investigation is over. Flower Mound Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Itamar Gelbman found himself…
Anyone who’s driven in Dallas for more than a few years has this experience. There you are, absent-mindedly piloting your automobile down a city street — likely one you’ve traversed unmolested every day for months — when you are stopped short by a peculiar sight. There, plodding across the intersecting…
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings is happy that U.S. District Judge Sidney Fitzwater refused to force the city of Dallas to schedule Exxxotica’s 2016 sex expo at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center. We know because he said so. “I am pleased with U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater’s ruling that…
Exxxotica will not be coming back to Dallas — at least for the time being. U.S. District Court Judge Sidney Fitzwater ruled Thursday morning that the umbrella organization for the adult expo banned by the Dallas City Council in February, Three Expo events, had not proved that it was likely…
Maybe, Missy Bevers’ killer was a woman. Maybe not. Maybe Bevers was singled out, hunted down after she made it clear where she’d be before sunrise Monday. Or maybe she walked in on a burglary. All of those possibilities are plausible and all have been cited by Bevers’ family or…
In January the Observer noted with a certain amusement that a bunch of JFK stuff was being hawked by New Jersey’s Goldin Auctions. These included a bullet fired from the gun that fired the bullet that killed the guy (Jack Ruby) who killed the guy who killed Kennedy (Lee Harvey…
This moment, right now – after a rigorous Baylor economic study has blown to smithereens the “economic impact” claims the city has made for years for Fair Park and the State Fair of Texas – is an invaluable learning opportunity. This is way beyond anything to do with the Fair…
Every three hours, a satellite called the Global Precipitation Measurement Observatory records the rain and snow that falls, worldwide. This week, the big precipitation story is Texas. East Texas got 6 to 12 inches, with similar totals for eastern Oklahoma. Houston tallied the highest downfall, at nearly 15 inches. “The main culprit…
On Saturday morning, Richard Greyson and a crew of his fellow master naturalists parked off Pemberton Hill Road and hiked across a meadow to the mighty bur oak that stretches over Dallas’ historic Big Spring. They had planted milkweed there the previous fall, sustenance for the clouds of monarch butterflies…
Hey, I got this one. People online Monday were wondering why in the world the Dallas Park Department had turned down a university’s offer to do a free study of the impact that the State Fair of Texas and Fair Park have on the Dallas economy. That’s easy. They don’t…
In the worst sign yet for his NFL prospect, former Texas A&M quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel has been dumped as a client by his agent, Drew Rosenhaus. Tuesday afternoon’s announcement came after the Dallas County District Attorney announced that accusations that Manziel beat his ex-girlfriend, Colleen Crowley,…
As it has in each of the last four years, Dallas ISD’s School for the Talented and Gifted has been named the best high school in the country by U.S. News and World Report. The district’s Science and Engineering Magnet, which shares the Yvonne A. Ewell Magnet Center building with…
Evening descends on Tent City. Overhead, the incessant whir of traffic on Interstate 45 has become a muffled groan with the onset of rush hour. The sun hasn’t yet sunk low enough to squeeze between the underside of the freeway and the roofs of the low-slung warehouses that surround it,…
